Amidst victory chants and in the presence of over 10,000 guests at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Narendra Modi took oath as Prime Minister of India for his third successive term on Sunday, June 9.
Attended by leaders from across India and abroad, seventy-three-year-old Modi has retained key ministers – Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar, and Piyush Goyal.
India’s democratic journey continues as voters will head out on Tuesday to exercise their franchise in 93 constituencies, spread across 11 states and Union Territories spanning the beaches of Goa to the jungles of Assam, and a large swathe of UP to north Karnataka, and seal the electoral fate of several heavyweights.
Appealing to the voters to vote in large numbers in the first phase of elections, India’s Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday, along with several political leaders, said that every vote of the public has the power to create a secure, developed, and self-reliant India. A record 968 million Indian citizens are registered to vote in this year’s national election.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah while discussing the new Criminal law Bills in the Rajya Sabha said that the implementation of these three new Criminal laws will ensure an end to the “Tareekh Pe Tareekh Era” and justice will be delivered in three years. The Rajya Sabha has passed three crucial Bills — Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita, and Bharatiya Saksha (Second) Bill — that will replace a raft of British-era laws after a day-long discussion in the Upper House.
India’s Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday discussed with United States Ambassador Eric Garcetti about advancing cooperation between both countries to check terrorism, drug trafficking and security domains. The discussion was held during a meeting between Shah and the US envoy at the North Block office of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
Justice Katju says, “One can understand distortion of the truth by 10, 20, or 30 degrees in furtherance of one’s vested interests, but distorting it by 180 degrees, i.e, making it totally upside down by painting a secular hero as a communal bigot and a villain, really boggles one’s mind. But that is precisely what has been done by some people having vested interests about Tipu and most other Muslim rulers in India.”
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday hailed the National Defence Response Force (NDRF) for rescuing a minor girl’s life in earthquake-hit Turkey
Legendary cricketer, Sunil Gavaskar, in his second “innings” with Heart to Heart (H2H) Foundation is all set to change medical education and treatment in India for good. As the Chairman of the Board of Governors of Heart to Heart Foundation, Gavaskar is spearheading the humanitarian movement called H2H Foundation that aims to build a 400-bed hospital and medical college in Bangalore by 2024, that will not only offer free treatment but also medical education to needy and committed students.
